.Publisher's note: This release was actually upgraded two times on Aug. 30, 2024. Initially, to improve Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov's function as an objective specialist. It was upgraded again to deal with a launch date.NASA rocketeer Scar Hague and also Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will definitely launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 goal to the International Spaceport Station. NASA rocketeers Zena Cardman and also Stephanie Wilson, formerly declared as crewmates, are actually eligible for reassignment on a potential objective..Hague as well as Gorbunov are going to take flight to the space station as leader and also purpose specialist, specifically, as aspect of a two-crew tour aboard a SpaceX Monster.The improved workers enhance adheres to NASA's selection to come back the firm's Boeing Team Air travel Exam uncrewed and launch Crew-9 along with 2 uninhabited seats. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams, who released aboard the Starliner space capsule in June, are going to pilot home with Hague and also Gorbunov in February 2025.The choice to flight Hague was created by NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba at the company's Johnson Area Facility in Houston. Acaba had to stabilize piloting a NASA workers participant with previous spaceflight knowledge to control the air travel, while making certain NASA maintains an incorporated crew along with a Roscosmos cosmonaut that can easily function their critical systems for carried on, safe station operations." While our company have actually modified staff just before for an assortment of causes, downsizing staff for this trip was an additional hard selection to adapt to considered that the staff has taught as a crew of 4," mentioned Acaba. "I possess the utmost self-confidence in all our crew, who have actually been superb throughout instruction for the purpose. Zena and Stephanie are going to remain to assist their crewmates before launch, and also they display what it indicates to be a specialist rocketeer.".The agency will discuss reassignment information for Cardman and Wilson when readily available." I am deeply happy with our entire team," mentioned Cardman, "and also I am self-assured Scar as well as Alex will certainly step into their functions with excellence. All four of us stay devoted to the success of this particular goal, as well as Stephanie and I look forward to flighting when the amount of time corrects.".Wilson incorporated, "I know Nick and also Alex will perform a fantastic job along with their work aboard the International Spaceport station as portion of Trip 72.".Along with 203 times logged in room, this are going to be Hague's 3rd launch and also 2nd mission to the orbiting research laboratory. In the course of his first launch in October 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a spacecraft enhancer breakdown, leading to an in-flight, post-launch abort, ballistic re-entry, and also secure touchdown in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. 5 months later, Hague released aboard Soyuz MS-12 and acted as a tour designer aboard the spaceport station throughout Expeditions 59 and 60. Hague administered three spacewalks to upgrade space station power units as well as install a docking adapter for commercial space capsule. An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Space Power, Hague completed a developing rotation at the Self defense Department, and acted as the Area Power's director of test and examination from 2020 to 2022. In August 2022, Hague returned to tasks at NASA, focusing on the Boeing Starliner Course until this flight job. Comply With @astrohague on X and also Instagram.This will certainly be Gorbunov's initial excursion to room as well as the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he analyzed design along with credentials in space capsule as well as upper phases from the Moscow Aviation Principle. Gorbunov got a degree coming from the armed forces department along with a specialty in operating and repairing plane, choppers, and also plane motors. Prior to his option as a cosmonaut in 2018, he functioned as an engineer for Spacecraft Room Corp. Energia and assisted freight spacecraft launches coming from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Hague and Gorbonov are going to enter of the Trip 72 crew aboard the station. They are going to sign up with Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner conducting clinical research and servicing activities into the terminal's 24th year of continual human visibility.Discover more about International Space Station research study and also functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Josh Finch/ Jimi RussellHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ james.j.russell@nasa.gov.Courtney BeasleyJohnson Area Center, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov.